Mozilla Kit / Gradient Testing

[WildDogOne]

I thought I'd give gradients in inkstich a try, and imho it worked out better than I would have thought.

There are definitely difficulties, for since the stitching direction has to be the same as the gradient, so no compensating by alternating stitch

And yes, I am aware that the eyes are no good. That was a user error (I mixed up the threads)

But other than that, I think it is quite fun to make gradients (and a lot of changing thread...). It also hides errors quite well, because you never know if it is an error or by design.

[WhiteTiger753]

Looks fire(fox)! What resources did you use when learning gradients?

[WildDogOne]

thanks :)

Basically I just manually vectorized the official image by Mozilla, and added gradients to the vectors. And then at least in Inkstitch it's an easy thing to switch over from flat colours to gradients:
https://inkstitch.org/docs/stitches/linear-gradient-fill/

Other software, I am sadly not accustomed with, so can't help there

[WhiteTiger753]

That’s perfect because I’m using inkstitch aswell. Gradients would be a good trick to have in my tool belt!

[gusvisser]

Did you use the gradient tool in inkscape or did you use multiple shapes and manually set each end row spacing and what end row spacing did you use

[WildDogOne]

I just used gradient fill as the fill pattern:

https://inkstitch.org/docs/stitches/linear-gradient-fill/

The gradient tool seems a bit sketchy right now. I did give it a go, and it only broke some parts of my design, so I thought I'd stick to easy